Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland

The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the 19th century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument.

About the author

Diarmid A. Finnegan is senior lecturer in human geography at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland and coeditor of Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire and The Correspondence of John Tyndall, volume 7. His current research centers on the history of science and religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Diarmid A Finnegan, Diarmid A. Finnegan
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780822966357
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6635-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)